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And below the previous plaque, in a belated recognition of her contribution to the discovery, "In this building Lise Meitner worked 1913-1938, the co-discoverer of the splitting of the atom, and Max Delbrück, pioneer of molecular genetics, who worked with Frau Meitner 1932-1937." Max Delbrück, who migrated to the U.S., received a Nobel Prize in 1969 for discoveries concerning "the replication mechanism and genetics structure of viruses."